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Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 16:19:31 -0400
From: Colin Plumb <colin@array.uucp>
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Subject: Re: Cellular "Harrassment" at Airport Security
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Anything with batteries in it could be a bomb.  A portable computer is
several pounds of unopenable case which X-rays will show as batteries,
wires, and unidentifiable junk.  This is a really good cover for an
explosive device.  Verifying that the thing does something is a good
way to screen out the less technologically sophisticated.

(Not that I expect anyone here to have any difficulty finding some
inessential space in a portable computer if they wented to create a
"working" bomb.)


Colin